KARACHI, Nov 10: Japan has offered a loan on very low mark-up for revival of Karachi Circular railway. The plan envisages restoration of circular railway from KPT bridge to Landhi and an additional circular service from new Sabzi Mandi to Sohrab Goth and Liaquatabad.
This was stated by Sindh Chief Secretary Fazlur Rehman here on Friday while talking to the NIPA course participants from Peshawar.
The visiting participants of the 41st advanced course on public sector management were also briefed about development activities in Sindh, including Lyari Expressway Resettlement Project, Devolved Social Service programme, RBOD besides mega and other projects of education, health, roads, schools in Sindh's rural areas. On the occasion, the course participants made queries about crime situation and police services, rural-urban problems, environmental pollution, devolution programme etc.
The director-general NIPA Peshawar thanked the chief secretary and other officers present in the meeting. On the occasion shields were also exchanged. Additional chief secretary development Ghulam Sarwar Khehro briefed the visitors about development projects of Sindh government in detail.
Secretary Implementation Nazar Hussain Mahar, Secretary, General Administration, Aftab Ahmed Memon, Additional IG Sindh, Special Secretary Finance and Special Secretary Local Government were also present.—APP
